Harper Construction lands $20.7 million Army contract

San Diego-based Harper Construction Co. has been awarded a $20.7 million U.S. Army contract to build a Mission Command Training Center at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.

The award is the third military contract in the last month for Harper Construction. In March, Harper Contruction won a pair of U.S. Navy contracts to build $70 million worth of aircraft maintenance hangars in Yuma, Ariz.

Work on the Fort Sill training center is expected to be completed by Feb. 1, 2014. Work on the Yuma aircraft hangars is scheduled to be finished by May 2014.